The third of four sessions by Margunn Serigstad Dahle of Gimlekollen School of Journalism and Communications, Norway, and Tony Watkins of Damaris Trust, UK, on popular culture at the Third Lausanne Congress, Cape Town, October 2010.

5.
Youth . . . need the media for guidance and
nurture in a society where other social
institutions, such as the family and the
school, do not shape the youth culture as
powerfully as they once did.
Mueller

17.
Do I have to change my name?
Will it get me far?
Should I lose some weight?
Am I gonna be a star?
I tried to be a boy
I tried to be a girl
I tried to be a mess
I tried to be the best
I guess I did it wrong
That’s why I wrote this song
This type of modern life
Is it for me?
This type of modern life
Is it for free?

29.
It is just the literature that we read for
‘amusement’, or ‘purely for pleasure’ that
may have the greatest and least suspected
inﬂuence upon us. It is the literature that
we read with the least effort that can have
the easiest and most insidious inﬂuence
upon us.
T.S. Eliot
Selected Essays (Faber and Faber, 1932)

57.
We think that idols are bad things, but that
is almost never the case.The greater the
good, the more likely we are to expect
that it can satisfy our deepest needs and
hopes.Anything can serve as a counterfeit
god, especially the very best things in life.
Tim Keller

61.
?
What do we mean by personal identity? How
does the holistic biblical view of humanity
shape our identity?
How do the media affect the formation of
identity in young people in our own cultural
contexts?
How should we approach personal identity
and the media in relation to our preaching,
Christian communities and pastoral care?